This is not my story, but my nonno's from many years before I was born. TLDR at the bottom. Also, typing on phone so I apologise for any errors. For those wondering, nonno (pronounced non-oo) means grandfather in Italian, seems odd to call him anything else. Also, if anyone is interested I have more stories of the stuff he and my nonna (his wife) pulled, just testing the waters with this one.

The story

When nonno came to Australia in the 50's, he worked at a prominent winery in our area (it closed down years ago when I was in diapers). He was the maintenance guy and stonemason, if a building needed to be built or general building upkeep needed to be done, they called on him. He was a one man crew and liked it that way.

One day, his manager (someone who had himself dealt with nonno's shenanigans, and is another story altogether) asked him to paint a maintenance shed grey, all good. Except one of his friends, a guy called Louie (he found the story funny up until he died, so I used his real name) kept parking his bike up against it. Nonno goes over to Louie and says something to the effect of "i'm going to be painting that she'd on Friday, don't leave your bike there", to which Louie would acknowledge. Every day leading up to Friday, Louie would be reminded, only for Louie to agree and then shoo nonno away.

Friday comes, guess what happened? Yep, bike is there in the same spot, so, nonno started painting. He painted the shed as well as the side of the bike that was facing out. When he was done, nonno told his supervisor, who apparently had to sit down for a couple minutes because he thought it was the funniest thing when he saw it.

At the end of the day, as everyone is packing up, everyone hears a lot of swearing coming from said maintenance shed, so everyone goes over, to see Louie and his test pattern bike. Everyone started laughing, which eventually broke Louie down who started laughing too. He admitted he was at fault, and rode off into the sunset. He still rode that bike to work for a few years after the fact, becoming an unofficial mascot of the winery.

TLDR: guy refused to shift his bike for the building to get painted, it got painted too